Bird Flu

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 03 Feb 2007, 14:09

Gobble... gobble.... gobble.....donk.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 03 Feb 2007, 14:16

BBC:

the 159,000 other turkeys on the farm will also have to be slaughtered.

the Bernard Matthews farm.....(birds) were raised in a shed

No surprise there then. Always knew there was a reason I avoided Bernard Matthews products....apart from the obvious nauseating advert reason.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 03 Feb 2007, 15:09

Marya wrote:Gobble... gobble.... gobble.....donk.

Is that from a transcript of your conversation at the pub(s) last night!!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 03 Feb 2007, 19:56

How very dare you!

No, it is the sound of a turkey happily (well, as happy as a battery turkey can be) going about its business and then keeling over. Perhaps I should have put gobble ...gobble...gobble...cough...donk. That would have been much clearer.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 03 Feb 2007, 21:06

Sad day for Golden Drummers fans everywhere.

Surely if you cook it well there's no risk? Be a shame to waste all that meat.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 05 Feb 2007, 21:39

All this carry on makes me glad that I'm a vegetarian (I'm not being smug,honest.........)

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 05 Feb 2007, 21:41

Dadaist said

Sad day for Golden Drummers fans everywhere.

Golden drummers?
I thought Drummer was that golden retriever on the window shades advert!!

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 05 Feb 2007, 22:38

Black Mamba wrote:All this carry on makes me glad that I'm a vegetarian

Sorry, Snakey One, dietary habits don't help: it's one's behaviour around live feathery things that could be the danger:

BBC quote from Professor Oxford:
You have got to get up-close and snuggly with a bird to get ill.

Nelson Hatstand · Post by **Nelson Hatstand** » 05 Feb 2007, 22:57

Black Mamba wrote:All this carry on makes me glad that I'm a vegetarian (I'm not being smug,honest.........)

Black Mamba, I'm sorry, but being vegetarian ain't gonna save you from the four horsemen. Only thing gonna save us now is the Lord...

Nelson Hatstand · Post by **Nelson Hatstand** » 05 Feb 2007, 22:59

Godammit, I spend half an hour looking for a rubbish grim reaper so-called emoticon, and then Poppy beats me to it! Oooh, she makes me so angry!

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 05 Feb 2007, 23:12

Nelson Hatstand wrote:Godammit, I spend half an hour looking for a rubbish grim reaper so-called emoticon, and then Poppy beats me to it! Oooh, she makes me so angry!

WTH are you going on about now, Mr Sideboard??? What emoticon??

(Nurse, get the doctor- stat - I think Mr Ironingboard needs more medicine!!)

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 05 Feb 2007, 23:16

Oh dear I forgot about that part

Ah well if I'm going to get it then it will happen, no point getting in a flap about it

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 05 Feb 2007, 23:19

Black Mamba wrote:Oh dear I forgot about that part
Ah well if I'm going to get it then it will happen, no point getting in a flap about it

Do you intend to cuddle turkeys??

I should be worried - I patted a goose in the Figgy Park last week. Got a dirty look from it, but it was too busy eating to react more!!

Nelson Hatstand · Post by **Nelson Hatstand** » 05 Feb 2007, 23:19

Sorry Poppy, I've calmed down now that I've sent Ali a rather sternly worded email, and also sent him a picture of my new hairstyle, so that he won't be able to doubt me anymore.

I actually meant that you'd beaten me to the point regarding the fact that diet will not save us from bird flu.

I'm sorry for any confusion which has arisen.

Yours sincerely,

Nelson Hatstand or whatever my name is.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 05 Feb 2007, 23:26

That's ok, Mr Coffeetable. I do hope you have chastised that Ali good and hard. And if that Ali does not let me see the photo he'll be in the deepest of deep trouble

XXXX

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 06 Feb 2007, 09:22

Poppy wrote:
Black Mamba wrote:Oh dear I forgot about that part
Ah well if I'm going to get it then it will happen, no point getting in a flap about it
Do you intend to cuddle turkeys??

I should be worried - I patted a goose in the Figgy Park last week. Got a dirty look from it, but it was too busy eating to react more!!

Eh no I don't intend to cuddle a turkey Poppy. I just got a bit confused (It's my age!!!)
As for that goose did you mean patted or pattied ( as in Pate) if it was the later that could explain the look

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 06 Feb 2007, 10:17

Black Mamba wrote: As for that goose did you mean patted or pattied ( as in Pate) if it was the later that could explain the look

Patt-ed - I'm not into foie gras!!

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 06 Feb 2007, 15:10